Alexander Close

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

SpaceX S-1:

"The restricted shares vest upon... Company’s establishment of a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants"

What a time to be alive.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

"The output of a manager is the output of the organizational units under his or her supervision or influence."

Those who can effectively manage this new continent of tireless employees, are going to build incredible things.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

For anyone building with AI agents right now, (re)read Andy Grove's High Output Management.

If agents are like a new continent spawned of intelligent minds working for cheap, effectively managing them for high output is one of the highest-leverage skills on Earth.🧵

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

Grove was big on 1:1s and candid feedback. Still 100% relevant.

When an agent screws up, don't just patch the output.

Root-cause fix the process. Update instructions so it never happens again. Elicit peak performance of the system through relentless iteration.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

As agents gravitate toward the median, it's the human's job to push them to a deliberate outlier.

[Emmett @emmettshine]

https://t.co/aCpVGfHKi3

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@pkedrosky Oligopolies and high switching costs allows orgs to play tricks to extract value. Even while providing the value of worldwide information at ones fingertips, for the customer experience it feels pretty bad.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@johnnyrodgersis + Why building physical things is mostly trips to the hardware store. 😅

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@leemnelson_ @kalv Have literally watched people walking around campsites taking photos of spots to "remember the good ones for next time". Not just RV's!

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@typeoneerror These are awesome. Nicely done!

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

Darwin said it best. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change.

[Sam Altman @sama]

The world is going to move faster and faster from here on.

People and institutions who embrace this will be richly rewarded.

People and institutions who do not or cannot are going to be challenged.

Adaptability and speed have gone from valuable to critical.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

🤔

[Ty @50ShadesofVan]

140 days apart.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@pkedrosky Surfing - +90% paddling!

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@pkedrosky Not cool.

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@drowbb @jjhorgan @bcndp Because "science"!

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@drowbb @jjhorgan @bcndp lol at this lol

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@kalv Call me crazy but playing the falling letters typing game is still a blast!

[Alexander Close @AlexanderClose]

@dmacpher @AlexTheChemist @SpaceX We thank you both for your contributions to spaceflight.